This one is partially owned by a number of players. About 50 of the 100 stakeholders is an ex-player including Ricky Williams, Terrell Owen's, Simeon Rice, Byron Chamberlain, Jeff Garcia and Dexter Jackson.

Starting cities/teams are San Diego Warriors, Oklahoma City Power, Portland Progress, Texas Revolution, Ohio Players, Florida Strong, Birmingham Kings, St. Louis Independence, Connecticut Underground and Oakland Panthers. Not sure I understand why they would name a team the Panthers, but okay.

NSMike wrote:

How did I live before digital distribution of old, cheap games?

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

You did live before digital distribution of old, cheap games. Now you just play games.

The Alliance of American Football is supposed to beat the XFL to the punch by starting in February.

The league has already put someone in the NFL, sorta: the 49ers replaced their suspended long snapper with one that was on an AAF roster. (Of course, more relevant is that he was the replacement long snapper for the Jaguars last year after theirs got hurt, and snapped for the Jags throughout the playoffs)